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Huckleberry
I am sure owning one in the past and seeing pictures of your Bullet now it would be pretty hard to read any flag or banner running 80+. Flags of any kind just don't hold up on those bad boys.

i use to fly the flag but now i have upgraded to the LED scrolling lights. bought from the same website.

My nominee for quote of the year!

Man, this is just the kind of mentality that can ruin fishing trips. Your whole line of thought is not only rude but a contradiction to itself, representing a "Me First" attitude. For example you say that you will pull in front of people, or behind them, DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU WANT TO FISH! Then in the next sentence you state that the water is not just for one persons use. When you make coments stating that you will pull in wherever you want it seems like you are the one that needs to realize that the water is there for everyone to enjoy. That means you should not pull up on people and ruin their time, and realize that you may have to go somewhere else if someone has already staked a claim.

Try this, instead of just pulling up on someone, ask them permission to ease on in,in an appropiate manner.

Man, the other day I had someone idel across 300yds of open water and go directly to the opposite side of an island that I was fishing. I was working my way west to east on the shorline of this island that may be 100 yds and this guy just came up and started doing the same thing from the opposite direction after I was already half way through with my pass. This is a one boat type of spot and the whole lake was empty. He actually casted a lure that hit my boat. I looked at him and asked if he was serious and he said, "Grow up, you dont own the water!" I was shocked and just left! He said he was already fishing there and I had 3 guys in the boat with me who all angerily watched him make the 300 yd journy to cut us off on a 100 yd stretch. The whole 300 yds he was not fishing, but intently traveling.

This guy was using the same mentality as you are using and it is not right. It is a me first mentality where you dont even realize how wrong you are because you are so focused on yourself. Yes, the water is there for everyone but all most follow a certain set of guidelines or no one would have a good time. Remember this!!

maybe TPWD will start handing out passes to certain areas of the lake.. you have to sign up to fish the area months in advance- then if you get caught out of the area they impound your boat and throw you in jail for a few weeks....

fish next to me, in front of me, behind me.... I dont care- just dont cast at the same dock I am, wait your turn. give me 25 yards away and I am happy. I keep my head down, and dont let them get in it. WAAAAYYYY to many folks out there to complain about sharing water nowadays...

These kind of threads are really starting to wear on me. Everyone KNOWS there is a correct way to act. Sitting on here bickering about it isnt becoming of an intelligent human being either. When push comes to shove: DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO YOU. Keep that motto and I promise youll see alot of people treat you different. I have had ONE bad tournament experience and I realize it my fault. If someone "wrongs" you. Be polite about it, work it out, and move on.

and if I see any of you a holes on one of my spots tomorrow, ill make sure you get sprayed by the rooster tail when Im passing.

A few weeks ago at EML friday tourney. A Dude in a skeeter came along troling for sandies with his girlfriend in the boat.
He passed between me and the bank and I was only 25yds from the bank.If I had a skull and cross bones flag I would have put it up right then and considered number 4 on your list Mark.It not always tournanent anglers.

skeeterronnie may be on to something. seperate the lake into individual fishing "holes" like the bass megabucks or such. say divide lake fork into 24 areas. and then auction off "times" they can be fished. silent auction with 50 percent of the money going to a charity voted on by the anglers and 50 percent to TPW. the wave of the future.

SkeeterRonnie, though I think you are a good dude, and typically mean well; I think the way that people act on the water is way to big a problem to so easily dismiss the way that you do. If it wasnt, then it wouldnt be brought up by so many people.

Yes, there are many lakes that are so crowded that one must assume he will be fishing along side others, however, there is a difference in shareing water and ruining others fishing with a Me First attitude. Also, I live down south where the lakes arent crowded at all and the rudeness is still there.

I dont even have to give examples, all you have to do is sit near the boat ramp at your local lake and you can see the problem.

TDR2, no, not everyone knows the correct way to act. If they did, you would not see all of these post by frustrated anglers, nor would I continuously get cut off, buzzed, and harrassed by people on the water. Luckily, I had a father who loved to fish and showed me how to treat others out on the water. However, in this age of divorce and everything else, many people do not have a role model to teach them how to act correctly. This is a major problem and if you dont see it then you are probably one of the ones causing it.